There Are Two Million More Women in College than Men

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There Are Two Million More Women in College than Men
There are two million more women in college than men; women are earning 58% of the Bachelor's degrees. This can be termed as a social problem because women keep on earning a majority of the degrees, dominating all professions; these include health profession accounting for 85%, public administration 82% while education accounts for 79 % women graduates. Scholars argue that the widening gap in education attainment between men and women is mostly linked to economic factors.
Labor market barriers have been lowered making college education more beneficial to women than before. Psychologists suggest that higher incidence of behavioral and school disciplinary problems have resulted in many boys dropping out of school at an early age compared to girls. The declining ratio of male to female education attainment for th...